NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The ar driver supports the Digi/Arnet SYNC/570i ISA and PCI cards that is
based on the HD64570 chip. Both the 2 and 4 port cards are supported and
auto detected.
The standard FreeBSD sppp code is used for the link level layer. The
default protocol used is PPP. The Cisco HDLC protocol can be used by
adding link2 to ifconfig(8).
Alternately, the driver can be compiled to support netgraph(4) (see
below).

NUMBERING

Only one line for each card is needed in the kernel configuration file.
The first card’s ports will be installed from ar0. The numbering of the
next card will continue where the first stopped, e.g. if the first card
is a two port card it will use ar0 and ar1. The next card will then
start at ar2.
The card only supports IRQ 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 15.
The iomem area is a 16Kb block and must start at a 16Kb boundary.

NETGRAPHSUPPORT

If the kernel is compiled with options NETGRAPH then the sppp and Cisco
HDLC modes are disabled (and the sppp driver is unneeded), and this
driver functions as a netgraph(4) node with a single hook named rawdata.
Connecting to this hook enables the transmission of raw HDLC frames. The
node will have the same name as the device with ‘‘sync_’’ prepended,
e.g., sync_ar0.

HISTORY

AUTHORS

BUGS

At the moment only the V.35 and X.21 interfaces are tested. The others
may need tweaks to the clock selection code.
The code can probably stand some optimizing.
Please report bugs to 〈jhay@FreeBSD.org〉.